Financial help? Work space?

[alexvasile]

Hello once more,
About a month and a half ago, I started a new team in my school, and since then we've been doing our best to get the team of the ground. So far everything has been ok with the exception of two major things:
1. We are not doing so great financially.
2. We couldn't find a dedicated space YET.

As far as it goes financially we are trying and doing fund raisers, but that doesn't seem to prove efficient. Therefore we are turning to what has possibly become our last line of hope: Grants. So far I have gotten this list of companies(sponsors): (http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=7024 ) which I think everybody else knows about, so the next step would be applying to them. Here's where the problem comes in: I don't know how to do that. The only things I heard about applying for grants, is that you need to write to the certain company that you choose, a letter asking them about what you need(amount of money) and why. Even though that seems like a simple task, it has proven pretty confusing for me and my team.
So my questions are: What exactly should be mentioned in the letter? What kind of format should it have? Where do I find the address that I have to sent it to (for different companies)? I'm guessing it's sent by mail, but just to make sure; is it mail or e-mail?(sorry stupid question)

Now for the space, I know I have asked this before but the problem still exists, so here's the story. In our school, pretty much every single room is being used by something or someone, therefore we haven't managed to get a space in school, at least not a dedicated space. And there really isn't anybody that offered to help us so far. So I want to ask for a favor: Any NYC team that has a space and is willing to let us use it would be much appreciated. If so please contact me at: alexvasile101@gmail.com Thank you!

If anybody can help with any of the above, it would be great.
Thank you for reading and helping!
-Alex